I am new about the Quartus in Linux (also new in Linux). I just install Quartus 13.1 in my Ubuntu. Then I can only start Quartus in the folder I installed. How should I do setup that I can start Quartus through command "quartus" in any directory? Thanks very much.

To get any program to execute from the command line, add the directory it is in to your path environment variable. I'm not familiar with Ubuntu, but you'd probably find info by goggling "Ubuntu PATH environment variable" By the way, Quartus isn't officially supported in Ubuntu. It is only supported in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). I've been usiing CentOS which is a free distribution that is very close to RHEL.

If you just want to run quartus and modelsim you can add this to your .bash_profile (or I think that would be .bashrc on Ubuntu since they seem to do everything from the .bashrc file): qhome=/path/where/you/installed/quartus PATH=$qhome/quartus/bin:$PATH PATH=$qhome/modelsim_ase/bin:$PATH export PATH QUARTUS_64BIT=1 export QUARTUS_64BIT Assuming you have installed and want to use the 64-bit version as well. You must source the .bash_profile/.bashrc file or start a new shell for it to take effect.

--- Quote Start --- If you just want to run quartus and modelsim you can add this to your .bash_profile (or I think that would be .bashrc on Ubuntu since they seem to do everything from the .bashrc file): qhome=/path/where/you/installed/quartus PATH=$qhome/quartus/bin:$PATH PATH=$qhome/modelsim_ase/bin:$PATH export PATH QUARTUS_64BIT=1 export QUARTUS_64BIT Assuming you have installed and want to use the 64-bit version as well. You must source the .bash_profile/.bashrc file or start a new shell for it to take effect. --- Quote End --- Thanks very much for reply. It works. So for: QUARTUS_64BIT=1 export QUARTUS_64BIT It sets I want to use 64 bit instead of 32 bit. How do you know this variable (QUARTUS_64BIT) ? Where should I check it? Thanks in advance.

--- Quote Start --- Thanks very much for reply. It works. So for: QUARTUS_64BIT=1 export QUARTUS_64BIT It sets I want to use 64 bit instead of 32 bit. How do you know this variable (QUARTUS_64BIT) ? Where should I check it? Thanks in advance. --- Quote End --- I'm not quite sure I understand your question. If you set the QUARTUS_64BIT environment variable as shown above Quartus will start in 64-bit mode. You don't have to check it. If you don't want to run the 64-bit version of Quartus simply don't set it.

--- Quote Start --- I'm not quite sure I understand your question. If you set the QUARTUS_64BIT environment variable as shown above Quartus will start in 64-bit mode. You don't have to check it. If you don't want to run the 64-bit version of Quartus simply don't set it. --- Quote End --- Hi petter, Sorry that I didn't clarify my question clearly. So as you mentioned QUARTUS_64BIT is an environment variable. But after I installed Quartus, how can I know I should set this environment variable "QUARTUS_64BIT" to configure the Quartus working in 64 bit mode? What document did you check? I think it should be some documents from Altera. Hope I clarify my question clearly this time. Thanks.

How to setup the Quartus 13,1 in Ubuntu 12.4.1?

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Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
9 years ago
Ubuntu isn't a supported OS for Quartus. I've had good luck with Centos as it is close enough to red hat to have the right system libraries. There have been several threads on what is needed to install Quartus in Ubuntu Linux. You basically need to add some libraries that Quartus needs but don't come with Ubuntu. You should be able to find several threads on this in the forum.
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
9 years ago
Thank you! I'm beginning to realize that. Maybe I'll just install a recent centos distro on a older laptop. Thanks!
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
9 years ago
Hi Galfonz,
Now I'm trying run on CentOS 6.8; do you have url's or pdf's that address how the configure the usb blaster? I "see" the information via dmesg when it's plugged in, and have the rules setup, but it doesn't create a tty or give an error.
Here's the rule:
# USB-Blaster II
BUS=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="09fb", SYSFS{idProduct}=="6810", MODE="0666"

Thanks!
steve
Altera_Forum
Honored Contributor
9 years ago
There are no special instructions for the drivers on Linux. Just follow the instructions in the installation guide for setting the environment variables needed by the command line tools. I think the programmer uses the command line tools.

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